Being and Becoming Kachin: Histories Beyond the State in the Borderworlds of Burma

Since independence in 1948, Burma has suffered from many internal conflicts. One of the most long-standing of these has been in the Kachin State, in the far north of the country where Burma has borders with India to the west and China to the east. In Being and Becoming Kachin Mandy Sadan explores the origins of the conflict that started in 1961 and why it has continued for so long.

Being and Becoming Kachin takes a much longer view of the problems that have led to such severe divisions betwe...